I'm still psyched.
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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§ ita § - Sep 27, 2010 9:51:14 am PDT #11305 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Laga - Sep 27, 2010 9:52:04 am PDT #11306 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I didn't realize it was set in the past. Is that a spoiler? I'm wondering how they're going to fold him into The Avengers.
Tom Scola - Sep 27, 2010 10:20:13 am PDT #11307 of 30000
hwæt
Laga, in the comic books, Captain America was preserved in ice for several decades after the end of WWII, only to be discovered by the Avengers later on.
What really happened was that after WWII superheroes became unpopular and Captain America's comic book was canceled. After they became popular again in the 1960s they used him being frozen as a way to retcon the character back into existence.
DavidS - Sep 27, 2010 2:36:52 pm PDT #11308 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Tivo alert: They're showing lots of classic Hammer Horror on TCM for this October, starting this Friday with Horror of Dracula (the first Christopher Lee Dracula, and the second horror movie of the Hammer explosion after Curse of Frankenstein).
They're also showing Brides of Dracula right after, and that's one of my favorite Hammers. It doesn't have Lee, but it has Cushing in one of his best performances as Van Helsing, and the story is really fascinating, lots of narrative twists away from the usual tropes, two really interesting female roles.
Laga - Sep 27, 2010 3:46:14 pm PDT #11309 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Ahh cool, Tom, thanks.
quester - Sep 27, 2010 3:49:10 pm PDT #11310 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Loved the Hammer films when I was a teen!
DavidS - Sep 27, 2010 3:59:23 pm PDT #11311 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Loved the Hammer films when I was a teen!
I've been watching a lot recently because I'm writing an article on early sixties horror. They vary quite a lot from flick to flick.
For example, their version of The Mummy is great - maybe the best - but all its sequels suck.
The Frankenstein movies are each different in tone and style, with the good doctor being shaded very differently in each one. At first he's arrogant, then he becomes more symphathetic, then he's an ice cold sociopath. But Cushing's great in all of them. I'm very curious to see Frankenstein Created Woman which has a curious premise (a man's soul transmitted into a woman's body. Something they'll go back to later in their Hammer career with Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde).
Lee was very hesitant to be typecast as Dracula, and had to be coerced back to the role. That's why he wasn't in Brides of Dracula and why when he finally returned he doesn't do any dialogue at all for most of an entire film.
I just watched the Hammer Phantom of the Opera recently and it's a weird mix of excellent performances (Herbert Lom is great in the lead), deadly slow pacing, weird focus (on the young lovers - who the fuck cares about Christine's beau?), and cool ass sets (loved the Phantom's lair).
Dana - Sep 27, 2010 4:10:57 pm PDT #11312 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
We're watching Whip It. I don't think it's possible for Ellen Page to be any more adorable.
Steph L. - Sep 27, 2010 4:23:07 pm PDT #11313 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Lee was very hesitant to be typecast as Dracula, and had to be coerced back to the role. That's why he wasn't in Brides of Dracula and why when he finally returned he doesn't do any dialogue at all for most of an entire film.
At a Halloween shindig we went to last year, they showed old B movies all night, including Christopher Lee in the Hammer classic "Dracula and His Vampire Bride" (which IMDB tells me is "The Satanic Rites of Dracula"), featuring Joanna Lumley as Jessica Van Helsing. Fun!
quester - Sep 27, 2010 5:24:21 pm PDT #11314 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
the Hammer Phantom of the Opera recently and it's a weird mix of excellent performances (Herbert Lom is great in the lead), deadly slow pacing, weird focus (on the young lovers - who the fuck cares about Christine's beau?), and cool ass sets (loved the Phantom's lair).
I love this version beyond all others. I always wished the opera was real because I loved the music. I adore Lom and this is one of my favorite performances.